“…Sixteen studies (32.7%) evaluated AI/ML applications to accurately predict patient reoperations, operating time, hospital LOS, discharges, readmissions, or surgical and inpatient costs [ [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] ]. In addition, 16 studies (32.7%) used patients’ preoperative risk factors and other patient-specific variables to optimize the patient selection and surgical planning process through the use of AI/ML-based predictions of surgical outcomes and postoperative complications [ [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] , [42] , [43] , [44] ]. The majority of the decision support studies evaluated AI/ML model performance using receiver operating characteristic/AUC, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity.…”